RIGHT OF PETITION

Constitutional right in which the law grants every person the right to make petitions

or requests to the administrative authorities of justice who are obliged to attend to them to

the extent that the petition is in accordance with the law, according to Article 23 of the

Constitution, these petitions may be of general or particular interest and that the legislator

may regulate their exercise before private organizations to guarantee fundamental rights.

It can be used to request different purposes among which are: The recognition of a

right, the intervention in a particular matter of an authority, entity or operation, that a legal

situation be resolved, that a service be provided, to require information; to consult,

examine require copies of documents, to formulate consultations, to file complaints and

denunciations, to make claims, to file appeals.

The term of the Right of Petition to be resolved is fifteen (15) working days

following its receipt, except for special legal regulation and under penalty of disciplinary

sanction, the procedures that will be subject to special term of resolution will be: Requests

for documents and information, which must be resolved within ten (10) days following their

receipt, and petitions through which a consultation is made to the authorities in relation to

the matters under their charge, which must be resolved within thirty (30) days following

their receipt.

Taking into account that the mechanism of protection of the same is the tutela

action which proceeds in case of considering that by action or omission of the authorities

or individuals who provide a public service violate or threaten the constitutional right of

petition which serves to claim before the judges the immediate protection of their

constitutional right.